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Pre-budget sale spree: 3000 cars sold in 20 days Pulack Ghatack
The nation witnessed record sale of different brands of cars during the last 20 days, thanks to the confidential budgetary information leaked before announcement of the budget.
"Sale of cars went up by as much as 20 per cent than normal sale. Around 3000 cars were sold in 20 days prior to announcement of the budget," Md Habib Ullah Don, President of Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Association (Barvida), said.
Informed sources, however, assume not less than 5000 cars were sold in a short span of time in Dhaka, as the upper middle class and the affluent rushed to the car market apprehending huge taxes in the offing.  |
Dr Mizanur Rahman made chairman of Borhanuddin College: Principal confined for 5 hrs
Staff Reporter
Some sacked teachers of the Sheikh Borhanuddin University College with the help of outsiders confined the principal of the Sheikh Borhanuddin university college in the city to her office room for about five hours yesterday and tried to assault her physically.
The sacked teachers along with over 100 outsiders also held demonstration on the college compound, college sources said.
On information, officer-In-Charge of the Kotwali police station and RAB members rushed to the spot and set free the principal. |
Grace for black money holders, punishment for fourth estate
Hasanuzzaman Khan
National budget for the fiscal 2009-10 which had been presented by Finance Minister A.M.A. Muhith in the Jatiya Sangsad was not as colourful as his shirt. Red shirt appears to be favourite to him.
The Finance Minister himself admitted that the Government had to compromise with a vested quarter and introduced the provision of whitening black money in the proposed budget. He has justified his action saying politics is an art of compromise.
Muhith had faced a barrage of questions on widespread criticism on leakage of budget provision of whitening black money and imposition of 5 per cent duty on import of newsprint. |
Ahmadinejad wins landslide: Clashes erupt in Iran over election dispute
AP, Tehran
Supporters of the main election challenger to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed with police and set up barricades of burning tires Saturday as authorities claimed the hard-line president was re-elected in a landslide. The rival candidate said the vote was tainted by widespread fraud and his followers responded with the most serious unrest in the capital in a decade.
Several hundred demonstrators - many wearing the trademark green colors of pro-reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi's campaign - chanted "the government lied to the people" and gathered near the Interior Ministry as the final count from Friday's presidential election was announced. |
FBCCI proposed whitening black money out of necessity: Annis Staff Reporter
Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) president Annisul Huq yesterday said that the proposal for whitening of black money was given in view its necessity in present investment scenario context.
He said this at a post budget press conference replying volley of questions over morality of amnesty for legalising undisclosed money, popularly known as black money.
The apex trade body president, however, hoped that the next three years would be the end of era of black money whitening procedure. |
Padma in death throes UNB, Rajshahi
The once-mighty Padma that flows through the northwestern and eastern parts of Bangladesh appears to be in death throes with massive Chars formed on the riverbed where crop farming takes place in the summer.
Besides blockages on its natural course at upstream points, lack of maintenance and dredging is blamed for the silting up of the country' s important river that has rendered river transport a forgotten vocation and fishing an extinct profession while causes nagging water crisis in dry season, particularly during Boro cultivation. |
Dispute over WTCC meet: Probe body formed bdnews24.com, Dhaka
The Home Ministry has formed a three-member probe body to investigate on Friday's dispute over a meeting of the Water Transport Coordination Cell at Agrabad in Chittagong, a home ministry spokesperson said.
"The home minister Sahara Khatun at a meeting on Saturday morning has decided to form a probe body to investigate the WTCC conflict and asked the body to submit its report within seven days," home ministry public relations officer Md Shahinoor Miah Shahin told bdnews24.com on Saturday. |
Grenade found at Hazaribagh
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Internet Edition. June 14, 2009, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
